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Almost every successful Google product over the last 15 years has been the result of acquiring an already-built product and marketing + distributing it well: Yo
by gatsby 7y ago
Almost every successful Google product over the last 15 years has been the result of acquiring an already-built product and marketing + distributing it well: Youtube, Nest, Waze, Doubleclick, Android.
Products that are organically created within Google (even Google Hire, created via acquihire) have a pretty awful track record.
- lquist 7y agoGmail? Google maps? Chrome?
- gatsby 7y agoGmail is 15 years old. Maps is ~15 years old (and was the combination of several acquisitions in the maps space: Keyhole, Where2, Zipdash, etc.) Chrome is 11 years old + extremely successful, but my point still stands.
- Iv 7y agoPlus Chrome is not really a product as, to my knowledge, it generates zero income.
- wmf 7y agoFirefox and Safari generate tons of money for Google via search referrals so Chrome would have billions in revenue if it was valued the same way.
- jldugger 7y agoIndeed, when you value Chrome's market share in terms of traffic acquisition, it's pretty straightforward. Especially since they designed it from the ground up to do more searches.
- whatcd 7y agoI believe it indirectly makes money as being a platform for Google's ecosystem, especially for their Enterprise Cloud apps suite or even Chromebooks.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoChrome is an advert delivery mechanism, if you see it from that perspective it looks highly lucrative.